· Private foundation
Viridi Futuro Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $381k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL | $379,120 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $352,162 |
| E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $298,979 |
| SAVING NATURE INC | $151,627 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC | $100,000 |
| RACHEL'S NETWORK | $69,851 |
| NATURA INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $45,000 |
| DOGWOOD ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| NC CONSERVATION NETWORK | $30,000 |
| UNC PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION-NC CHAPTER | $26,000 |
| NC WARN | $20,000 |
| CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +147%- RNRACHEL'S NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $373k · revenue +32%
- SNSAVING NATURE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $192k · revenue +576%
Funded once
- NWNC WASTE AWARENESS AND REDUCTION NETWORK (NCWARN)one grant, 2022 · $20k
- CAConflict Awareness Projectone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -56%
IPASone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Conservation Network and the most unlike its peers is Conflict Awareness Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATURA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Dogwood Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NC WARN INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds ECOAMERICA ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lillian's List Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CleanAIRE NC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds PROSPEKT MIRA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds NatureServe ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp ↗
- Who funds Journalism Funding Partners ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Blumenthal Foundation for Charity Religion Education & Better Inter- · Tides Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Patagoniaorg · Park Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Viridi Futuro Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.